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Originally Posted by New Era
Bull####!!! What is the other option? Sam ####ing Bennett??? The guy with the worse +/- on the team? Sam Bennett can't check his hat when he goes out for drinks, let alone trying to play a defensive role in the NHL. Jankowski has provided a level of stability on his line that allows you throw them out there and know you aren't getting outscored when he is on the ice.
Here we go. Five game sample versus an 82 game sample. #### the playoffs. The whole team shat the bed. The whole team. When Mike Smith and Sam Bennett are the standouts on your roster that means the whole team messed the sheets. Neither of those standouts would be on the Flames IMO (one isn't!), and I would call the playoffs the failure it is. To suggest the five game playoff set is an indicator of anything is gross ignorance of the performance of the team. I'm so sick of hearing about the playoffs meaning anything. They don't, and if Treliving believes they do and reacts based on those five games I want his head as a manager of the franchise.
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I’m not talking about Sam Bennett. But why do you think we were after Kadri? To improve upon a weakness of the team - which was our 3rd line centre, Mark Jankowski.
Fairly emotional response, NewEra. You seem to be over-defending Jankowski and marginalizing the criticism pointed towards him - when we know for a fact that the team has openly explored improving upon his roster spot. With Kadri inbound, Jankowski was either being moved to the wing or off the team entirely. Unless you think his presence would have shifted Backlund, Monahan or Ryan to the wing?